Janaina Medeiros
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Origami Around
shark vs the universe
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Game of Thrones Daily
JVL
Sade Olutola
One Nice Bug Per Day
we're not kids anymore.
Love Begins
Cosimo Galluzzi
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Three Goblin Art
let's talk about Bridgerton tea, my ask is open
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Xuebing Du
Misplaced Lens Cap
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@demaunik
i forget baby bugs don't really exist not in the way i want them too anywYs. i was like how come ive never seen a baby beetle i bet theyre soo cute and then i googled and i was like oh right. grub
grasshopper nymph.
hey, don’t cry— grasshopper nymph, okay?
So. I showed you Bug's begging dance yesterday, but I feel you should get to see the death drill as well. When she actually gets a mouse, she performs the death drill- a rapid back and forth shake of her head with her beak almost against the ground, that would extremely efficiently kill any small animal she got her beak on in the wild.
Thankfully she is not in the wild and the mouse is already dead, but she doesn't know that.
Also it's just impressive how the mouse disappears. Schlorp. No horking necessary.
Anyway, I think about the death drill a lot. I wonder if velociraptors did this to small prey items. If archeopteryx did. If compsognathus did. They had hands, or at least front claws, but I wonder if they did this still. How many ghosts of dinosaurs past echo in her behaviors?
Any chance I get to talk about Guatemala, I take, and I can actually explain this picture!
So in the 19th century, a lot of Chinese immigrants started settling in Guatemala. I’m not sure why, but this newspaper article says it could be that the construction of trains happening at that time attracted Chinese immigrants that had already worked in the US during the gold rush. Regardless, by 1920 the census noted 990 legal Chinese residents in the country, tho it was probably higher due to unregistered immigrants.
Over time, this community continued to grow and they also, naturally, brought their cuisine into the country with Chinese restaurants gaining popularity. These restaurants, much like they did in the United States, combined local ingredients and tastes with traditional recipes.
This all led to chao mein (chow mein) becoming well know and loved as a staple of Guatemalan cuisine. I remember my own grandmother going to the local market to buy bags merchants made with vegetables chopped in long strips for making chao mein. There are many versions, like the chao mein tostadas which place it on top a crispy corn tostada, with cheese and cilantro on top:
Some common ingredients include: carrots, onions, celery, peppers, güisquil/chayote, and finally soy sauce and/or Worcestershire sauce which is usually just called salsa inglesa (english sauce). Ingredients are often renamed in Latin America for simplicity and based on common associations. In fact, soy sauce is sometimes also called salsa china.
You can actually see the recipe for Guatemalan chao mein in the back of the soy sauce container next to the Worcestershire sauce:
Chao mein is so popular with Guatemalans that Guatemalan restaurants in the United States will often have it as part of the menu. These sauces were probably made for Guatemalans outside the country to enjoy some traditional Guatemalan chao mein! ¡Que chilero!
I appreciate this suggestion but frankly if internet users are incapable of visiting my blog and witnessing the ten year+ backlog of prompts in this font then that’s on them. The second I let gen ai tell me what to do, ever, is the second you can assume I’ve died and returned to the deep
happy pride
I've seen this clip many times, but never really appreciated the power of "what was her problem?" Just casually assuming that lesbians come in a wide variety of shapes and being inclusive. As a transbian who is probably still closer to Homer shaped than to my ideal, that's huge!
rest in peace george michael you would’ve done numbers on here
You Want More Mayor Mamdani, ok........
More of this please, everywhere.
Fit check!!
not anymore
Bro this is so fucked up where's my me #myme
Once when I was in undergrad, someone described something as “problematic” in class and our professor was like, “That’s cool, but ‘problematic’ doesn’t really mean anything. It means that the thing you’re describing has a problem, and in and of itself that’s not bad. Art, especially, should always have problems, or else it’s not interesting and not art, either. It sounds like you’re trying to say that this is bad, but you don’t want to say ‘bad.’ Is that right?”
So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the “bad” thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, “I’m uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.”
Once we stopped calling things “problematic” and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, “that’s racist” or “that’s misogynistic” or “ew capitalism gross” out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, “Uhhh... I’m not sure what’s so bad?” and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.
Anyway. Whenever I see the word problematic, I can’t help but think of this professor being like, “Good starting point, now let’s get specific.” I think when we have to commit to saying “that’s ___” it requires a lot more careful thought about the truth and impact and complexities of whatever we’re claiming. Sometimes there really is some bullshit afoot, and also sometimes it’s art, and it should be full of problems, because that’s what art is.
#'this is present in the text' is often a good first step #but those second and third ones (naming it; describing its function) are vital (via @elucubrare)
Unmute !
I will. I WILL!!
Jacob Anderson and Sam Reid for GQ Hype by Huy Luong
Well, they're in the right place.
things to say after fucking up egregiously
pack it up boys we've made a social blunder
let's run that again
one more time normal style
I'm going to become a statistic
further proof god is out to get me
it's because I tore my acl senior year
I couldn't do it for religious reasons
my ex took my talent in the divorce
good thing nobody saw that (said directly to someone who definitely saw it)
do you have a favourite book that you love with all your heart but would never recommend to someone without knowing them super well because of the uh, content matter? mine is Throne of Bones by Brian McNaughton. and if you want to tell me yours…. I’m always looking for something to read 👀
Ooh I know!
You should read this awesome New Book called "Apparently Sir Cameron Needs to Die" by Greer Stothers
I don’t know man…. I’m into some sick stuff, but that’s pushing it even for me.
Hot take:
It's not rainbow capitalism when it's something being handmade by someone who is queer and selling it as a celebration of their queerness or in solidarity with other queer folk.
